Posts by Ron Luther

Auction Site?

Dude, where have you been? eBay hasn't been an 'auction site' for years!! I remember when it used to be an auction site. (Heck. I had a 4 digit eBay ID back in the day.) That was a looooong time ago.

Today true auctions are a very very small percentage of eBay.

Today eBay's just an extention of corporate catalog sales. That's why they have to allow the dynamic off-server content that leads to the cross-site scripting issues. Corporate pass-thru sales are the bulk of eBay's business these days.

Seriously. Pick up a dead tree catalog. Now pick a page at random. Now search in Ebay for any product listed on that page. You'll see that product on eBay. It will be for sale from that company and the 'BuyItNow' price will be the same price you see in the dead tree catalog.

That's what eBay is today. The small business guys started it, posting slow moving inventory for sale, then moving on to listing more and more new items. Today they list items they don't even have in stock but can direct ship to the buyer.

Now the national and international folks have moved in.

Auction site? Meh. eBay isn't an auction site anymore. Sorry.

God Save All Your Queens Are Belong To Us!

Somebody should send your bloody 'internationale' marketing department up the bomb!

Next thing you know we'll be reading about a tech company going out of "business" instead of going titsup!

Bullocks!

This Texan prefers that you stay as British in URL as you are in attitude.

Spoof?

Nice, but I think I will hold out for the version that will allow me to spoof RFID tags and transmit false positives. That will be *much* more fun!

Maliciously yours,

RonL.